Houseboating Adventures - Issue 19 - (Page 6) VU`qfip£UVpb Pictured below: The magnificent “Meeting of the Waters” that form the mighty Amazon River in Brazil. Unforgettable photo courtesy swallowsandamazonstours.com I really like this issue. Why? Because it is in the best spirit of our magazines’ title (houseboating adventures) and being “unforgettable” you know that this is something you don’t read about everyday. Such is the case here. In “Unforgettable Houseboating Adventures” journey with us to the Amazon River in South America to ‘Meeting of the Waters’ - Six miles from Manaus, Brazil is one of the most incredible displays of nature's majesty. No matter what you've heard, nothing can fully prepare you for a trip to “Meeting of the Waters”, the incredible place where two distinct bodies of water meet, but don't mix. Here is where they join, without losing their distinct qualities. Here in the Amazon, mystery surrounds you: it lies in the hidden powers of a rare plant, it lives within the heart of every Indian that call the almighty Amazon Rain Forest home, it resonates in the call of a beautiful exotic bird you can't see but whose foreign call thrills you to the core. The Amazon river basin, most of which lies in the enormous South American country of Brazil, has it beginnings high in the Andes, as a series of tiny tributaries. The “Meeting of the Waters” is the dramatic convergence of two of these types of waters. As its name suggests the Rio Negro is a darker, slower, and much heavier body of water than the Rio Solimoes. Temperature, density, velocity differences keep these two bodies of water separate for more than 6 miles before at last they join to form the great Amazon. Sloths, piranhas, anacondas and colorful parrots are just a few of the animals you might expect to encounter on a tour of the Amazon on a Swallows and Amazons houseboat tour. . .that’s where we take you and that’s just one of seven great adventures in this issue! )6B@" A05("%C&5AB9&@ http://swallowsandamazonstours.com
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